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This chap has been hanging around all day :smile:

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Dont you mean "twitchers"? :lol:

Nice photo, think its a sparrowhawk :think:
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Heh, I thought you might like it :smile:
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Tonks wrote:Birders and twitchers are the same thing (ish)...
Ah, fair enough - hadnt heard that term before. A friend of mine is an RSBP member and I encountered some twitchers in a hide at an RSPB place in Herts. The increduluous tone of voice of the old man telling us he'd seen a plover that morning caused me to think how lucky we are that the things havent got registrations, or people like him would be noting them down :lol:
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At least they don't get replaced by a newer version that comes from everywhere else but here :roll:

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"Birders" is the non-UK version of "twitchers" I believe.
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jonesey2k wrote:This chap has been hanging around all day :smile:
:doh: This chap is a lady, Jonesy!

Toby's right, she's a sparrowhawk and she's waiting for you to put food out to lure the poor little birds into your killing fields. How could you?

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Ian

At least it's vaguely normal.

Not like those other bird killers who do it for sport




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Male Sparrowhawks are grey and Females are brown.Nice shot and your lucky to see it as I never seen one in are gardern :huf: :lol:

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ianhind wrote:At least it's vaguely normal......Not like those other bird killers who do it for sport........CATS
My cats don't p*ss around with birds, Ian! They have their eye on bigger prey!

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